Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1887-12-03

Congress meets Monday, the 9th
of December, that being the first
Monday.
The Democratic organizations Of
Norfolk are pnsling Col. l.. d.
Starke. of that city, tnrneNt speak
cr of the House OF Delegates.
There have been over four hun
dred private dwellings erected in
Roanoke City. Va, tins wear. and
vet there is nota vacant house Tor
rent by any OF the real estate
accents.
The Supreme Court OF Virginia
has decided that the Common
wealth shall recover from OK At
tcrnry General Field the sl,9n6
enormously pad to him IN fees by
Auditor S. B.own Allen.
The treasurer Of Frederick coun
ty. Va, states that lie has not had
y coupon presented upto this time.
and that the taxpayers are settling
their taxes rs rapidly as usual, hav,
ing received as much money as III
former Years.
Eek Supreme Judge Francis II.
Anderson died ut his home near
Lexington, Va, Wednesday. The
deceased WAS Il member OF the
State Supreme Court until The Ma
hohe Legislature onS,ed Ill tho
members of that bench in 1852.
COLUMBIA, S. c., Nov. 5O.-rhe
State Senate To-day passed a bill
penSioning soldiers Of the State
who servei! in the Confederate
army. The pension is FIVE dollars
~ month for al disabled soldiers.
and for unmarried widows of dis
allied soldiers who lost a leg or arm
Newport News, Va. seems to he
getting along in spite of the big
blooms further Sonth. During the
past two years 80 bui!,lng lots have
been sold there at prices ranging
from $3.50 TO $3.50 each. and build
ing is going on Iii KY. Eligible
lots on the outsk.r.s of the place
sell for $50.
A movement was started in
Richmond Tuesday looking to the
erection in that city Of Il mOnn-
ment to the private soldiers of the
Contederacv. The intention OF
those at the head Of this move
mcnt is to interest not only the
Southern soldiers, but the surviv-
oys of the Federal army i'll this
subject.
The Court of Claims disposed
Yesterday of IL number Of French
spoliation claims. and It's conclu.
SionS will be reported to Congress.
The latter body will he called up
on to make the necessary appro-
priations 10 pay these claims. aud
it is TO be Hoped that some fna!
action will be reachetl.-Balto.
Sun, Nov. %.
A Tennessee farmer, whose land
WIS uuler mortgage and about to
he taken away from him, fell or
his knees in prayer. Hc got up
and seized The plough handles with
a rev grip. gave the Old mule Il
vigorous lick, and before he had
gone twenty feet he turned up
Jug with over $500 IN gold and sill
yer in it.--Greenville (Tcnn.) Mes
Senger.
In Quitlnan. Ga, a drunken ne
gro resisted arrest. Tue police
man hit him on the head with a
club, aud in an instant the negroes
wool was all ublaze. The police.
man was frightened and took to
his heels. After he had recovered
from lis fright sufficiently to stop
running lie resigned. The expla-
nation Of the blaze was found in
the Negroes practice of using his
hair as Il match safe.
Capitalists are in Norfolk, repre-
Scnting other capitalists in New
York, Philadelphia and liverpool,
making arrangements to obtain
charters from tie Legislature 10
establish steel works aud car fac
sories on land purchased on the
river just south Of the navy-yard.
1t is also said thai these capital
lists are ultimately Interested IN a
lew railroad line projected from
Norfolk to the Mississippi, and to
connect there with a European line
of steamships which English ship.
builders will establish.
Some time since movement
was set on foot at Macon, Ga. TO
raise by popular subs cription a jeff
Davis fund, but it las been ahan.
donet at lie request of Mrs. Davis
who has written letter in which
she thanks her friends fo; their
kind efforts, but deprecates the &C
complislment of it. She adds:
Both my daughter and / have re-
ceived an education which would
stand instead of money were eve
rything 10 he swept away, and we
would not bc comfortable under
this moneyed obligation to those
who have gwen far greater boon
TO my husband ;.lleady-their